H.R. 4214: The Compound 1080 and M-44 Elimination Act [2012]

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Update: This bill failed to pass before the end of the 112th Congress, and is now dead.

Bill description: This bill would ban the use of two deadly poisons — sodium fluoroacetate (Compound 1080) and sodium cyanide — presently used nationwide for lethal predator control (of coyotes and foxes, among others) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program. [teaserbreak]

Read the full text of the bill here (PDF).

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